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Message-ID: <20030815174249.GA8283@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:42:49 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ST5481 USB ISDN modem in kernel 2.2.x
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:58:07PM +0400, Lunar wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Solar Designer wrote:
> > If you pick Linux 2.4.x, you absolutely need to use 2.4.21-ow2
> > currently. (For 2.2.x, as old as 2.2.22 which was released last year
> > is still reasonable to keep on some existing installs. You can't do
> > that for 2.4.x, too many 2.4.x-specific critical security holes have
> > been fixed since then.)
>
> Solar, may be use 2.6.xx for OWL Release 1.1 ?
s/OWL/Owl/ please. ;-)
No, I don't see a valid reason to do so unless the release gets
delayed by at least a year. ;-)
> The Kernel 2.4.x have more bad strings, so as :
>
> Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001 This program is
> free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
> Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
> version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
> Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the
> GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the
> Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
> 02111-1307, USA. Author: Dipankar Sarma (Based on a Dynix/ptx
> implementation by Paul Mckenney
I don't understand what is so bad about those copyright notices and
what you're trying to say by it.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar@...nwall.com>
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